Global radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of sub-Eddington accretion disks around supermassive black holes

YF Jiang, O Blaes, JM Stone… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We conduct global three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the
inner regions of accretion flows around a 5× 10 8 M⊙ black hole, with mass accretion rates …

Large-scale poloidal magnetic field dynamo leads to powerful jets in GRMHD simulations of black hole accretion with toroidal field

M Liska, A Tchekhovskoy… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Accreting black holes (BHs) launch relativistic collimated jets, across many decades in
luminosity and mass, suggesting the jet launching mechanism is universal, robust, and scale …

Extreme AGN variability: evidence of magnetically elevated accretion?

J Dexter, MC Begelman - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Rapid, large amplitude variability at optical to X-ray wavelengths is now seen in an
increasing number of Seyfert galaxies and luminous quasars. The variations imply a global …

Accretion geometry in the hard state of the black hole x-ray binary MAXI J1820+ 070

AA Zdziarski, MA Dziełak, B De Marco… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We study X-ray spectra from the outburst rise of the accreting black hole binary MAXI J1820+
070. We find that models having the disk inclinations within those of either the binary or the …

Global 3D Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Accretion onto a Stellar-mass Black Hole at Sub-and Near-critical Accretion Rates

J Huang, YF Jiang, H Feng, SW Davis… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present global 3D radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion onto a 6.62
solar-mass black hole, with quasi-steady-state accretion rates reaching 0.016–0.9 times the …

Two-temperature GRRMHD Simulations of M87

BR Ryan, SM Ressler, JC Dolence… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present axisymmetric two-temperature general relativistic radiation
magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the inner region of the accretion flow onto the …

The Role of Strong Magnetic Fields in Stabilizing Highly Luminous Thin Disks

B Mishra, PC Fragile, J Anderson… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present and analyze a set of three-dimensional, global, general relativistic radiation
magnetohydrodynamic simulations of thin, radiation-pressure-dominated accretion disks …

Spontaneous ring formation in wind-emitting accretion discs

A Riols, G Lesur - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2019 - aanda.org
Rings and gaps have been observed in a wide range of proto-planetary discs, from young
systems like HLTau to older discs like TW Hydra. Recent disc simulations have shown that …

FORGE'd in FIRE II: The Formation of Magnetically-Dominated Quasar Accretion Disks from Cosmological Initial Conditions

PF Hopkins, J Squire, KY Su, UP Steinwandel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In a companion paper, we reported the self-consistent formation of quasar accretion disks
with inflow rates $\sim 10\,{\rm M_ {\odot}\, yr^{-1}} $ down to< 300 Schwarzschild radii from …

Kinetic and radiative power from optically thin accretion flows

A Sądowski, M Gaspari - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We perform a set of general relativistic, radiative, magneto-hydrodynamical simulations (GR-
RMHD) to study the transition from radiatively inefficient to efficient state of accretion on a …